Support for secure websockets?

[J-Rojas]

Hi, I have recently used the webrtc_ros node within a prototype. For my use case, I need a secure web context to workaround webrtc browser issues when not solely working through localhost.

It seems this project doesn't current support a configuration for secure websockets, is that correct?

[roehling]

No, but you can use pretty much any TLS proxy such as stunnel as frontend. For instance, I used the following configuration in the past to have a secure WebRTC server on port 8490 with the regular WebRTC server at localhost:8080 as backend:

pid =
foreground = yes

[webrtc]
accept = 8490
connect = 8080
cert = webrtc_stunnel_fake_cert.pem
key = webrtc_stunnel_fake_key.pem

With foreground = yes, you can even start and stop the stunnel program via launch file.